Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Mystery; secrecy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Mystery; esoterics; -- opposed to exotery.

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  • noun archaic mystery; esoterics

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Examples

  • It proved that genres other than reinventions, horror and esotery could find a home at the imprint.

    Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • The unorthodoxy of Hermetic thought is often over - looked by scholars who detour the dark esotery of pre-twentieth-century thought by insisting that sym - bols of darkness and chaos, serpents, monsters, and the like, were readily Christianized (Walker, 1953).

    HERMETICISM BLOSSOM FEINSTEIN 1968

  • We can study this process of cultural transfusion by focusing on one of the more effective systems of esotery used by Western writers, the Hermetica.

    HERMETICISM BLOSSOM FEINSTEIN 1968

  • Perhaps we can say that innovators searching for a sense of balance in their conceptions of life and cre - ativity found in the esotery of the Near East, the

    HERMETICISM BLOSSOM FEINSTEIN 1968

  • I seem to be instructed in one of the mysteries of erotic esotery, yet on my word I am no wiser.

    The Egoist George Meredith 1868

  • I seem to be instructed in one of the mysteries of erotic esotery, yet on my word I am no wiser.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • There is one book, the Book of Books, swelling rich and full with the wisdom and beauty and joy and sorrow of humanity -- a book that set humility like a diamond in the forehead of virtue; that found mercy and charity outcasts among the minds of men and left them radiant queens in the world's heart; that stickled not to describe the gorgeous esotery of corroding passion and shamed it with the purity of Mary Magdelen; that dragged from the despair of old Job the uttermost poison-drop of doubt and answered it with the noble problem of organized existence; that teems with murder and mistake and glows with all goodness and honest aspiration -- that is the Book of Books.

    The Delicious Vice Young Ewing Allison 1892

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